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.org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 24, 2003 @07:47AM from the enterprise-ready dept.

johnnyb writes "The .org domain, which has long run on Oracle systems, is now being transferred to a PostgreSQL system. I guess we can now dispel the "untested in mission-critical applications" myth."

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Re:Great idea... by mustangdavis · 2003-01-24 08:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If it breaks they can just go to postgresql.org to get updates and....

... kick them selves for wasting the bandwidth to download those updates, then point their browser to MySQL.com and prepare to upgrade to MySQL while they download the source code!

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Re:Another victory for open source by The+Bungi · 2003-01-24 08:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

but because it's simply better quality.
I'll ignore the obvious karma whoring that is apparently working for you today - but are you saying that Postgres is a better quality database than Oracle?